That we’re even starting this so late is totally my bad — plenty of work and personal obligations, then the site being eaten by its host, and something that I’d meant to start a month ago is just now seeing the light of day. But the extra time has given me a chance to think it through better, and I have a pretty neat competition put together, I think.

First order of business! This is an individual competition. No groups. Not at all. Su-metal gets a bye into the final rounds by dint of Babymetal’s Corenament victory, and will hold the #1 overall seed for what that’s worth (not much), but she’s going to face a lot of challenges because —

This is going to be more than voting, friends. This is Queen of the Scene, not some junky popularity contest that’s way easy to spam. We’re really going to test how many fans are out there, and just how much power and influence idols have over each other, and we’re going to find lots of ways to do it.

Which is not to say that there won’t be voting — there’ll be a lot of it! — only that voting is going to be just one component of how it all goes down.

Without giving away too many details, the gist is this: The preliminary round is round-robin group play, with the winner and runner-up of each division advancing to the real deal, which itself will be a series of randomly assigned matchup types and challenges, sprinkled with wild card entries of my own choosing, every one of which will last for a single day.

Nobody gets eliminated, per se, but instead accrues points per win-draw-loss, with a bunch of fun variables thrown in to keep it interesting. Will there be chair shots and run-ins? You betcha!

Because I am the Vincent K. McMahon of this shenanigan, I am also the boss, and I’ve already decided on which divisions we’ll use for the preliminaries and two entries per.

Divisions

The Look (fashion or trend, iconic in their own way)Pikarin, Mashiro (Zenbu Kimi no Sei Da)

I mentioned that it’s an individual competition (there can be only one Queen, you see), but a single group can have many entries … one per division, and each competitor can only be in one division. So think strategically about who really belongs where, and definitely think about the big names that I left out so far on purpose. And remember: Su-metal already has a bye.

The ultimate goal is to select the one idol who really reigns supreme over this whole alt-loud-iverse. Solo idols are highly encouraged, upsets heavily wished for. Just like with the Best Of nominations, total nominations per division will determine who gets in there. Cap of five per category, preferring four, minimum of three; because people won’t all be nominating the same individuals for each division, I’m going to give precedence to where they got the most nominations, period.

Kindly take care of all of this in the comments. In fact, discuss away! Don’t submit one name per division, either; think, “Hey, who’s actually a really good singer and would make a good match for Aina?”, knowing that the odds of said person actually facing Aina head-to-head outside of the round-robin preliminary are basically none, so they actually do have a chance!

What’s the point, anyway? Well, the winning Queen of the Scene, in addition to that awesome title, will become the Official Oshi of Homicidols.com for the rest of the year, and will therefore wind up getting some kind of idiotic feature — basically, this is your chance to either elevate your personal favorite in front of others, or to annoy the crap out of me, or even both!

This process is open through Saturday. I’ll tally it all up on Sunday, and the preliminaries kick off next week.

The Look (fashion or trend, iconic in their own way)
Younapi (YLMM) vs. (Kika Front, maybe? Kika needs to be in this category)
Moga Mogami (dempagumi) vs Coshotaaaaaaan (MBG). We need at least one battle of blondes with the same hairstyle.

Hell’s Angels (harsh vocals)

Whirlwinds (dance)
Pan Luna (that’s how I noticed her during the auditions, not that I expect her to survive her round)
Rin Wada (MBG). She’s very sharp.
Edgecrushers (boundary blurrers, scene leaders, legends of the underground)
TOGAWA JUN (fight me.)
Lingling?
Nozomi (?) (Billie Idle)
Rinahamu

For some reason there seems to one very big dog missing from this discussion.
Ano-Chan from YLLM, she could in any of several categories The Look (for her modeling work), Edge Crushers (for all her different collaborations), Sisterhood (we have video evidence she’ll punch a gaiijin and if getting beat up by Ano-chan doesn’t sound like a party to you I have no interest in partying with you) or Bow Down (for all of the above). I don’t care what category, but Ano-Chan needs to be in.

Yes! Let’s go with that! Good job on the name-connection. She also did have my favourite screams in idols (back when she was in Lolisyn)… but… I don’t know if she does them anymore, she didn’t in her previous group before this one in the same agency (Psycho Predator) and I’ve never heard a single note of music from Diable Voix so don’t know if she does them now…

I’m just an overtly enthusiastic participant and Maniac has the final word, but since she was your favorite screamer and it’s about the girls themselves, it seems fine? I mostly added the groups to ensure no two were nominated in the same category at the same time and it makes for easier googling. But if she did screams, she could probably do it again, right?

WELP, Since most of my nominations got placed, guess I’ll just second a few and add maybe one.

Seconding (or thirding and fourthing, whatever…) :

Saki (2&) and Nadeshiko for Supersonic.

Yuna, Shidare, and Hanako-San for Hell’s Angels.

Rinahamu for Edgecrushers.

Atsuko for Sisterhood.

Pour Lui for Bow Down.

MY ADDITIONS would be.

Mani (Yanamyu) for Whirlwinds. (Probably all the girls in that group, the dance moves are pretty great.

Risaki Kakizaki (Necroma) and Saki (Gang Parade/ BiS) for Bow Down.

A final nomination I put by itself because it might not fit, would be Mizuta Mari from THE Natsu no Mamono. I know, technically they probably are not considered idols, as they are a group/band/wrestling thing. But, Mari is/was technically Idol, and Mizuho was part of Bellring…

ANYWAY, this probably isn’t the place to go on a rant about my (recent/new found) love of THE Natsu no Mamono, but I would put Mari in Edgecrushers. I think she’s been versatile enough with Izukoneko, going on to be in what was probably one of the best Pop groups in a long time in Plastic 2 Mercy, before she left and they became P.O.P. And then, doing this. I think she’s got a great voice too, but I think she’d fit better in Edgecrushers. So, there’s my defense of the nomination…